STICKY INSTITUTE

Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2025
Kensington Town Hall
Sunday the 9th February
12–5pm

After a two-year absence, we were chuffed to be back at Sticky Institute’s beautiful, sweaty, buzzing Festival of the Photocopier. Tabling, at 85–86, at the Kensington Town Hall, it was lovely, as ever we recall, to meet so many new and familiar, dear and encouraging faces.

Thank-you, @sticky_institute! To the next one! To zines and their construction.

If you missed making it in person, or were swamped, you’ll find all our available zines through our online store, with the first orders wrapped in what remained of our brown paper table signage, including copies of our newest zine, Juniper & the Berries. Printed with Indigo Digital White on 140gsm Earl Black stock, and folded using the Turkish Map fold, this pocket-sized ‘tail’ is available for $9.

Thank-you, friends, for taking an interest in what we make. We’ll next be tabling at the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.

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Juniper & the Berries took shape slowly, with Bill Berry, Juniper’s eldest and only surviving joey, ready to start his soft-release journey with his bonded buddy, Jean, this weekend.

Other recent Tiny but Wild rescues, in the background of the folding, have included, Nino, of Christmas Street, an adult male Grey-headed flying fox who had been cut out of a kids’ soccer net and placed under a fig tree, in the hope that he might fly off, and Fritz, another adult male, this time, though, trapped in a city courtyard.

While Fritz recovers from his ordeal, he does so with Pan, short for Pancake. Named after the shape we had to gently ease him into in order to slide him free, we are utterly amazed Pan, a juvenile, continues to do so well.

Pan was found caught in the gap between a frameless glass balustrade panel and a rail post, on a balcony on the eighth floor. His left knuckle was wedged in so tightly, we had to use surgical lubricant to ease him down the side of the balcony, in a gap we could just fit our hands through, if we kept them open and flat, our range of motion like a windscreen wiper. (Thankfully, we were in the shade, on a 42°C day, and the two of us didn’t also get stuck and require backup. To those in the appartments opposite, it may have looked quite curious.)

Our hard, hot, concrete and glass world is not a forgiving landing pad for wildlife.

Nino is a timely reminder to let your friends and neighbours know that should you discover an entangled Grey-headed flying fox, or similar, in a net or, indeed, any sticky situation, call your nearest wildlife shelter or rescue group immediately.

Another way you can support the things we make, and our shelter, Tiny but Wild, is through the Australian Jazz Museum and their brand new recording, also called Tiny but Wild. We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again, we loved creating the artwork for this, and we are moon-leaping, overjoyed by this new venture.

Please head to australianjazzmuseum.bandcamp.com
to order a copy for your very good self.

The album launches on the 14th of February, 2025.

As ever, please note: you need to be a qualified, vaccinated carer to handle megabats and microbats.

Image credit: Before settling on the nocturnal piano keys, at one stage, as we worked on the cover of the Australian Jazz Museum’s recording, it looked like this.